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Montevideo, May 9th 2026 - 12:26 UTC

Brazil

  • Tuesday, January 13th 2026 - 10:00 UTC

    Trump spoils Lula's celebration of trade surplus with Iran

    The crisis in Iran is escalating, and Trump will take whichever action he deems necessary

    US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that any nation conducting business with Iran will face a 25% tariff on all trade with Washington, thus crushing earlier celebrations by Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose government proudly announced a substantial trade surplus with Tehran, totaling US$2.8 billion in 2025, driven by corn and soybeans.

  • Monday, January 12th 2026 - 10:22 UTC

    Argentina's Embassy in Caracas to be placed under Italian protection

    Starting Thursday, Brazil will no longer represent Argentina's interests in Venezuela due to the “technical need” to reorganize its country's mission.

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pulled his country's diplomats from the building that was once Argentina's Embassy in Caracas, but which had been placed under Brasilia's care when Javier Milei severed all ties with the Nicolás Maduro totalitarian regime.

  • Friday, January 9th 2026 - 20:33 UTC

    EU-Mercosur deal to be signed in Asunción on Jan. 17

    Mercosur Presidents do not need to attend the signing, but they will most likely be there, Lubetkin foresaw

    The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the European Union (EU) will be signed in Paraguay on Saturday, Jan. 17, Argentine Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed on Friday, following the decisive round of voting in Brussels, where France and its allies failed to reach the minimum number to topple the initiative.

  • Friday, January 9th 2026 - 10:18 UTC

    Lula discusses Venezuela with Carney and Scheinbaum

    The three leaders warned against the return of “outdated zones of influence” in the Western Hemisphere

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held separate telephone conferences on Thursday to discuss the ongoing events in Venezuela with his Mexican colleague Claudia Scheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

  • Thursday, January 8th 2026 - 22:15 UTC

    Lula vetoes entire leniency bill for Jan. 8 rioters

    Lula did the foreseeable thing: remain loyal to his leftwing voters and leave it up to lawmakers to bear the weight of overriding his veto

    On the third anniversary of the Jan. 8 attempted coup d'état, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva vetoed the entire Bill 2,162 approved by both Houses of Congress, providing for the reduction of sentences of the over 800 people convicted for their involvement in the anti-democratic plot.

  • Thursday, January 8th 2026 - 10:09 UTC

    Bolsonaro back in hospital after all

    Flávio Bolsonaro called De Moraes a denialist of medical science

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized on Wednesday following a head injury sustained in his jail cell. The incident has triggered a fierce legal battle after Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes denied the retired Army captain proper assistance, citing technicalities.

  • Thursday, January 8th 2026 - 09:56 UTC

    Three years after the fact, the Jan. 8 uprising still has Lula's future in the balance

    Whichever course of action Lula chooses, he will have to pay a political price

    Brazil is commemorating Thursday the third anniversary of the Jan. 8, 2023, attempted coup d'état, for which most notably former President Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest aides have been convicted, in addition to some 810 other defendants.

  • Wednesday, January 7th 2026 - 10:22 UTC

    Bolsonaro denied hospital trip after fall

    Michelle Bolsonaro fears her husband might have “neurological damage” after a fall that remained untreated for a while

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes denied on Tuesday a request from former President Jair Bolsonaro's legal team to have their client transferred to a medical facility after suffering what his relatives claim was a fall while locked up at the Federal Police's headquarters in Brasilia to serve his 27-year prison sentence for masterminding the Jan. 8, 2023, attempted coup d'état.

  • Tuesday, January 6th 2026 - 10:00 UTC

    Brazil's oil and gas production has its ups and downs in late 2025

    “We project producing 2.5 million barrels of oil per day throughout this year,” Chambriard said

    Brazil's oil and natural gas production totaled 4.921 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) in November 2025, with 3.773 million barrels per day (bbl/d) of oil extracted, which represented a 6.4% decrease from the previous month and a 13.9% increase compared to the same month in 2024.

  • Tuesday, January 6th 2026 - 08:33 UTC

    Maduro's fall becomes campaign asset for Flávio Bolsonaro

    Brazil's TSE is withholding evidence of Lula's ties with Maduro's regime, which will come out anyway in the US, Eduardo Bolsonaro noted (R)

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's sons Eduardo and Flávio foresee the latter's victory in this year's elections after the ties between deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are exposed in the trial underway in New York.